Pate Family History
- Pate Name Meaning
- English and Scottish: from the personal name Pat(t), Pate, a short form of Patrick. English and Scottish: nickname for a man with a bald head, from Middle English pate ‘head’, ‘skull’. French (Paté): from Old French pat(t)é ‘with paws’, ‘pawed’ (from pat(t)e ‘paw’), a nickname, applied presumably to a man with large and clumsy hands and feet. German: nickname for a trustworthy man, from Middle High German pate, Middle Low German pade ‘godfather’, ‘male relative’ (see Paeth), or alternatively from a personal name Bado, probably meaning ‘battle’, ‘fight’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 821,281 Historical Documents with Pate on Ancestry
- 237,417 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 115,131 Census and Voter Lists
- 31,512 Military Records
- 8,473 Immigration Records
- 428,748 Member Trees
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Number of Pate families
 202 - 401  68 - 201 |
 1 - 67  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Pate families
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143 - 283 48 - 142 |
1 - 47 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Pate census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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